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Ideally, like every other major Division I-A football program, UConn would like to have five scholarship quarterbacks. The Huskies ended the season with three, including Chandler Whitmer, who has exhausted his eligibility. The Huskies searched for a quarterback during the recruiting period and found one early, Tyler Davis, now a mid-year enrollee. Unless something changes, the Huskies will enter next season with three quarterbacks: junior Tim Boyle, who started three games last season; N.C. State transfer Bryant Shirreffs, who had to sit out last season and will be a redshirt sophomore; and Davis, from Mepham High in North Bellmore, N.Y. The Huskies also are bringing in a preferred...

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Ideally, like every other major Division I-A football program, UConn would like to have five scholarship quarterbacks.The Huskies ended the season with three, including Chandler Whitmer, who has exhausted his eligibility. The Huskies searched for a...

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NEW YORK — The words came from the Jack Coffey Field press box with a full-throated fury."That spit is on you! You're a senior quarterback! Act like it!"Michael Nebrich had just thrown a lousy pass into the middle of the field picked off by...

STORRS — This is the kind of accusation that can damage a college football program. It is a father's accusation that can damage a coach's reputation and his ability to recruit the sons of other fathers.
It is an accusation that UConn coach Bob Diaco...

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It was, Tyler Murphy said, a day to remember. "And it was," Murphy said, "a night I will never forget. It's hard to put into exact words how special it was. I've never experienced anything like it."
After the pregame walkthrough,...

EAST HARTFORD — UConn quarterback Chandler Whitmer had an interesting perspective of recent circumstances."I can't imagine what I'd be like at home working a day job and seeing a situation where I could have played the game I love again,"...

EAST HARTFORD — Over the past month, Bob Diaco repeatedly called the first quarter of his first UConn season "the preparation." On Saturday, after this 38-21 loss to Boise State, he called the next quarter "the present."
Good.
It's...

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Aug. 29, 2013:...

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— UConn freshman Sydney Cotto admits she hasn't gotten much schoolwork done lately. Tuesday, she was in Nashville playing her tuba as a member of the school band as the women's basketball team won its ninth national title. She returned to Storrs midweek...

STORRS – It should be apparent by now new UConn football coach Bob Diaco is wise beyond his 41 years.
He was a football player at Iowa, an assistant coach at Iowa, Western Illinois, Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Central Michigan, Virginia,...

STORRS - UConn coach Bob Diaco has had an awful lot on his plate since he was hired in December.One thing he wanted to do to help connect to fans was generate excitement for the program and get people into the Rentschler Field stands after a disastrous...

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